id Software's Future With Wii U

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Awaiting Carmack's approval.

By Charles Onyett

With a few 'core' titles, such as Vigil's Darksiders II, on the release schedule for Wii U, what do other hardcore studios think of Nintendo's upcoming console? There are few with more hardcore cred than id Software, and studio president Todd Hollenshead offered some perspective.

"I haven't really had a chance to sit down with [John] Carmack about it, because it's his opinion that matters. From what Nintendo is saying, [the Wii U] looks interesting, but it still remains to be seen how it fits within how id Tech 5 would run on it, is the audience right for us to develop games on that platform."

Might there be any chance of id's current project, Rage, showing up on Nintendo's Wii following the release of the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC versions this October?

"For Rage, as much as Nintendo might not like to hear this, id Tech 5 is too much tech for the Wii. We're not doing a crappy version of Rage on the Wii. If you play the PC, the PS3, the 360 version, you get all of it. All the media's the same. We didn't make the crippled version that somebody wishes they had some other platform to play on."

Looks like for now, though id Software has spread its development focus across multiple platforms in recent years, it's still not quite ready to make the jump to Nintendo.